Found it hard to develop a relationship with the characters, except for Hender. lol. Character development was a little flat for me. The end got a little crazy but overall a pretty fun read. Lots of comparisons between it and Jurassic Park... to me there was no similarities. This novel was a stand alone. Would I read it again? Probably not. Do I regret reading it? No. It was a fun, quick read! ( )

A horror novel like no other. This book is especially scary for the people who are environmentally minded and have an interest/knowledge of biology. I have never had the "nuke it til nothing survives" mentality (being somewhat of a tree hugger) but this was so scary of a scenario that I figuratively had my finger on the red destruction button with no regrets. ( )

I was pleasantly surprised when I read Fragment.It will fool you in the beginning into thinking you are reading just another SYFY channel B novel.But be patient and read past the first chapter.You won't regret it.The characters in Fragment are more than in depth-they are lovable and/or hateable.In either case you will feel strongly about them and the outcome of the novel.For lovers of action,adventure,science fiction and science fact..Fragment will wisk you away and leave you sad to be brought back home in the end. ( )

Lives up to blurbs: "...This is one hellva ride." I enjoyed travelling to Hender's Island safely in imagination and fantasy. Excellent descriptions of organisms on Hender's Island. I particulary liked the Hender's Disk Ants and Hendropods. ( )

Written by first-time author Warren Fahy, Fragment is being marketed by Bantam as the next Jurassic Park. You can see why - it's packed with hard science factoids, nonstop action, flesh eating monsters who would give Guillermo Del Toro nightmares, and characters as wooden as the trees slaughtered to mass market this book. I don't mean this as criticism exactly. The novel does exactly what it sets out to do: tell a rip-roaring yarn, and teach you some real science in the process. No, it's not a literary masterpiece. But you'll have fun while you're reading it.

Wikipedia in English

An unexplored island...A discovery that could shape the fate of mankind...

Straight out of tomorrow's headlines, a heart-pounding adventure and a breathless, race-against-the-clock journey into the mysteries of science.

In this powerhouse of suspense — as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins — scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they've seen before... an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.

The time is now. The place is the Trident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might just be what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders — and the ultimate test of survival begins...

For when they reach the island's shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find — creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where science has gone mad — this is the earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years...

Soon the scientists will stumble on something more shocking than anything humanity has ever encountered — because among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any scientific theory — and must be saved at any cost.

Haiku summary

▾Book descriptions

No descriptions found.

▾Library descriptions

Scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they've seen before... an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.